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  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Is it Better to Average Probabilities or Quantiles?

By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Robert L. Winkler
We consider two ways to aggregate expert opinions using simple averages: averaging probabilities and averaging quantiles. We examine analytical properties of these forecasts and compare their ability to harness the wisdom of the crowd. In terms of location, the two... View Details
Keywords: Probability Forecasts; Quantile Forecasts; Expert Combination; Linear Opinion Pooling; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • May–June 2015
  • Article

Television Advertising and Online Shopping

By: Jura Liaukonyte, Thales Teixeira and Kenneth Wilbur
Media multitasking competes with television advertising for consumers' attention, but it also may facilitate immediate and measurable response to some advertisements. This paper explores whether and how television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a... View Details
Keywords: Content Analysis; Difference-in-differences; Internet; Media Multitasking; Online Purchases; Advertising; Advertising Industry; United States
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  • July 2017
  • Article

What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Business Earnings; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

limitations and constraints others have accepted, and set out to create new realities. This book is motivated by a simple observation: Leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, problem solving, business growth-and even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2008
  • Article

Style Investing and Institutional Investors

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Melvyn Teo
This paper explores institutional investors' trades in stocks grouped by style and the relationship of these trades with equity market returns. It aggregates transactions drawn from a large universe of approximately $6 trillion of institutional funds. To analyze style... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry
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  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

as to why people accept cheating by others. Our results indicate that the effect is due at least in part to the failure to notice that unethical behavior is occurring when the change is gradual rather than abrupt. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • May 15, 2012
  • Article

Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America

By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine
Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195310627 The Comovement of Returns and Investment within International Firms Authors:Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley Publication:In NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, edited by Richard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Article

The Promise of Prediction Contests

By: Phillip E. Pfeifer, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl
This article examines the prediction contest as a vehicle for aggregating the opinions of a crowd of experts. After proposing a general definition distinguishing prediction contests from other mechanisms for harnessing the wisdom of crowds, we focus on... View Details
Keywords: Prediction; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Fine Harvest Restaurant Group

By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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  • August 2014
  • Article

Incentives in a Stage-Gate Process

By: Raul O. Chao, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Many large organizations use a stage‐gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage‐gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no‐go... View Details
Keywords: Stage-Gate Process; Production; Operations; Product Development; Innovation and Invention
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  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

much more welcoming attitude, given we found that inspections by Cal/OSHA, California's health and safety regulator, led to substantial reductions in injuries and workers' compensation costs. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Digital Platforms 2.0: Learnings, Opportunities, and Challenges

By: Shrabastee Banerjee, Ishita Chakraborty, Hana Choi, Hannes Datta, Remi Daviet, Chiara Farronato, Minkyung Kim, Anja Lambrecht, Puneet Manchanda, Aniko Oery, Ananya Sen, Marshall W Van Alstyne, Prasad Vana, Kenneth C Wilbur, Xu Zhang and Bobby Zhou
Platform-based digital ecosystems form the backbone of our interactions with the Internet. Over the past decade, digital ecosystems have witnessed significant growth, both in terms of industry footprint and academic research. Yet, the challenges associated with their... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; E-commerce; Market Design
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  • 14 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions

Breaking, and Adam Slavney co-Founder & CEO of Pascal. They heard from Sam Liss and Harvard Office of Technology Development on translating and licensing intellectual property. Ted Wiley, co-Founder and COO at Form Energy, spoke about... View Details
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Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

caption Hide caption A. Leroy Willis, MBA 1969. Show caption Hide caption George R. Price, MBA 1970. Show caption Hide caption Impact on Research & Curriculum: Slider Kenneth R. Andrews. HBS Archives Photograph Collection. IMEDE. 'Instar... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

71 Snapshots

The Bulletin profiles eight outstanding members of the Class of 1971. While their backgrounds and interests are diverse, they are all united by a common characteristic--the ability to bring a sense of excellence to everything they do.... View Details